A lawsuit brought by a landowner against a tenant composting company for failing to remove mulch from the property was not unlawful under the “anti-SLAPP” statute, the Supreme Judicial Court has determined.

The Supreme Judicial Court’s Committee on Professional Responsibility for Clerks of the Court is considering a formal recommendation that Barnstable District Court Clerk-Magistrate Robert E. Powers be removed from office.

A controversial ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court allowing a town to charge real estate developers an “inflow-and-infiltration reduction fee” in return for access to its sewer system does not give municipalities free reign to impose such “I/I” charges in ...

Is a cell phone more like a container or a computer? That was the question before the Supreme Judicial Court last week when it heard appeals in two cases in which Boston police seized cell phones from individuals arrested for ...

Water damage to the basement of a home was not covered by a flood insurance policy even though the policy’s “declarations page” stated that the contents of the home were located in the “basement and above,” the 1st U.S. Circuit ...

Lawyers for indicted ex-Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill say the line between criminal conduct and behavior previously reserved for State Ethics Commission review is so gray under Massachusetts’ new public corruption statute that it would be fundamentally unfair for his high-profile ...